saving octet-stream png file

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
> On 2016-08-22, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
>>> On 2016-08-19, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> fd.write(request.POST[key])
>>>
>>> You could try:
>>>
>>>   request.encoding = "iso-8859-1"
>>>   fd.write(request.POST[key].encode("iso-8859-1"))
>>>
>>> It's hacky and nasty and there might be a better "official" method
>>> but I think it should work.
>>
>> For some reason that messes up the request structure:
>>
>> (Pdb) type(request.POST[key])
>><type 'unicode'>
>> (Pdb) request.encoding = "iso-8859-1"
>> (Pdb) type(request.POST[key])
>> *** MultiValueDictKeyError:
>> "u'right-carotidartery:63B2E474-D690-445F-B92A-31EBADDC9D93.png'"
>
> Sounds like you should be filing a bug report with Django.

Turns out that is expected behavior -- request.encoding clears
existing GET/POST data. Not sure how it's useful to set that then.